linkedin post 2020-10-25 05:12:42

MEMORY PHYSICALITY. “Nucleotide sequence memory is a kind of object memory: the gene is a thing, embodying a code that must only exist for it to qualify as memory. This makes little biological sense, however: memory, to be useful at all, must be interpretable memory. This renders the Neodarwinian presumption of the supremacy of the gene insufficient to its supposed task, because a gene has no meaning except in a cognitive, and therefore a physiological, context. The gene cannot be a simple specifier of function, it must be a participant in function, and therefore must be a function itself, embedded in broader suites of function that can be forms of hereditary memory themselves.”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-016-9256-5

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